Example sentences of "[adv] could [pers pn] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never , The Smiths now make Duran Duran , Nik Kershaw or Michael Jackson look years out of date so how could they have been seen as old fashioned at the start ? |
| 2 | How could she have been so blind ? |
| 3 | How could she have been so blind ? she thought privately , as they began to head out to the lagoon . |
| 4 | How could she have been foolish enough to let it happen ? she asked herself inwardly as the lift slowed and stopped , and its wide metal doors sighed open . |
| 5 | How could she have been so gullible ? |
| 6 | How could she have been such a fool ? |
| 7 | How could she have been so stupid ? |
| 8 | How could she have been so pliable in her aunt 's hands ? |
| 9 | But how could she have been exposed to radiation ? ’ |
| 10 | How could she have been on the river ? |
| 11 | How could she have been so foolish as to imagine he had issued the invitation on a personal level ? |
| 12 | How could she have been so … so treacherous ? |
| 13 | How could she have been so thoughtless , so foolish , done something so unarguably dangerous ? |
| 14 | Oh God , he thought , how could I have been so stupid , so blind . |
| 15 | How could I have been so heartless ? ’ |
| 16 | How could I have been so irresponsible , putting my foolish ambitions before Richard and my children ? |
| 17 | How could I have been such a fool as to take him seriously ? |
| 18 | ( Oh dear , I had not thought to check the lunar date ; how could I have been so silly ? ) |
| 19 | How could I have been so simple , naive ? |
| 20 | ‘ How could I have been so stupid ? ’ |
| 21 | How could I have been such a fool ? ’ she wailed through her tears . |
| 22 | ‘ How could I have been taken in by his charm ? ’ |
| 23 | But oh , she thought , tearlessly watching Mrs Greville leave , how could I have been so deceived — and twice at that … ? |
| 24 | How could I have been so blind to have let you go … ? ’ |
| 25 | How could he have been so foolish as to stretch out away from the shade of the trees ? |
| 26 | How could he have been such a poor judge of character ? |
| 27 | How could he have been capable of such cruelty ? |
| 28 | Given the brief span of their acquaintance , the even briefer time they had actually spent together , how could he have been so presumptuous as to imagine that she would wish to fly out and join him at the Plaza ? |
| 29 | How could he have been so shortsighted , so absolutely thick as to worry about commitment when the girl he was worried about committing to was Alexandra ? |
| 30 | ‘ And how could it have been important enough to justify half-a-dozen murders ? ’ |